On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:20:23 -0600
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:07:48 -0600
> Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:57:25 -0500 (EST)
> > Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:51:45 -0500
> > > > Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I suppose we could continue this thread along the lines of
> > > > > "Now that Gentoo has achieved respectability ...".
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Respectability, but probably never full LSB compliance, as one
> > > > of the detractors (strangely silent in recent weeks) would say.
> > > 
> > > Just to stire the pot, and play devil's advocate, i will say that
> > > it hasn't achiveved respectability in alot of groups.  There are
> > > some heated attacks on gentoo on the XFS mailign list, and i've
> > > seen some snide remarks on LKML as well.
> > > 
> > 
> > Just curious: do most of the snide remarks come from people who have
> > never tried it? I'm sure that the XFS folks would be miffed by the
> > fact that a few (but only a very few) gentoo developers have had
> > heartburn from XFS (lengthy thread on this list last year). I'm
> > curious what problem the LKML folks have with gentoo.
> > 
> 
> Just as a courtesy to all of us, I'm forking this off to general. I
> love a good interchange as well as the next, but some folks may prefer
> to stay on technical questions and solutions on linux-users.
> 

Extract from the other list.

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:56:11 -0400
Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >>Respectability, but probably never full LSB compliance, as one of
> >the>detractors (strangely silent in recent weeks) would say.

> Oh he's talking about me for the most part.   Collins, bless his
> pointy typing fingers, would get on here in the first weeks he was
> using Gentoo and spout forth with the glory of the beast.....  on and
> on....  etc.    I got a little tired of the 'new toy' rhetoric and
> made a few comments to that effect.
> 
> Nothing against gentoo...   just it's user base....   <VBSEG>

No, actually I was referring to DEP. He was practically foaming at the
mouth about lack of LSB compliance.

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